27/03/2009 |
Colombia - Medellin cleans up its act
Chris Kraul | Los Angeles Times
The Colombian city's homicide rate is down 90%, fighters are being re-integrated into society and the sewer system -- which left the river district an open cesspool -- is being revamped.Once the shadowy and violent domain of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, Medellin has undergone a renaissance over the last decade due to enlightened civic policy and public works, offering government officials proof that urban decline can be reversed. ...
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27/03/2009 |
What Mexican drug war? Spring-break students defy travel warnings.
Sara Miller Llana | CSMonitor
Universities and the US government warned American students about the risks of travel in Mexico. But Cancún numbers are off only slightly. ...
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27/03/2009 |
US - Family members allegedly ran heroin smuggling ring
Sam Quinones and Richard Winton | Los Angeles Times
Police arrest 48 suspects, members of a Oaxacan Indian clan, who allegedly brought the drugs in from Mexico, selling 15 to 20 pounds a week to gangs in East Los Angeles. ...
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27/03/2009 |
La vigilancia electrónica
Jorge Roberto Maradiaga | La Tribuna
Es una verdad irrefutable y un hecho fácilmente comprobable, el crecimiento de la criminalidad, con la particularidad que ello no es propio de nuestro país (Honduras), pues se trata más bien de un fenómeno que en muchos países tiene un dimensionamiento mucho mayor, sobre todo hoy en día que estamos viviendo una verdadera crisis económica a nivel mundial. ...
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27/03/2009 |
México - "No queremos esa violencia en EE.UU.": Janet Napolitano
BBC | Revista Semana
Estados Unidos duplicará el número de agentes en la frontera sur y asistirá con helicópteros militares al gobierno de Felipe Calderón para ayudar a combatir la llamada narcoviolencia que asola México y que ha dejado miles de muertos en el último año. ...
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27/03/2009 |
Central America - An Emerging Role in the Drug Trade
Stephen Meiners | Stratfor
As part of STRATFOR’s coverage of the security situation in Mexico, we have observed some significant developments in the drug trade in the Western Hemisphere over the past year. While the United States remains the top destination for South American-produced cocaine, and Mexico continues to serve as the primary transshipment route, the path between Mexico and South America is clearly changing. ...
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27/03/2009 |
FBI Barters With Muslim Organizations
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. | NewsMax
On Friday, CNN.com ran a news item that essentially reiterated the contents of a press release issued earlier in the week by a coalition calling itself the American Muslim Taskforce. ...
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26/03/2009 |
Mercosur - Mercopol and Brazil's Increasing Influence
Stratfor Staff | Stratfor
Brazil is expected to propose the creation of a regional police force as part of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) trade union. Despite Mercosur’s destabilization as a result of Argentina’s economic troubles and the global economic downturn, Brazil appears ready to use Mercosur as a platform for greater regional security cooperation — an endeavor that will strengthen Brazil’s regional leadership. ...
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26/03/2009 |
US - North Korea loading rocket on launch pad
Pamela Hess | My Way
North Korea is loading a Taepodong rocket on its east coast launch pad in anticipation of the launch of a communications satellite early next month, U.S. officials say. U.S. counterproliferation and intelligence officials have confirmed Japanese news reports of the expected launch between April 4 and 8. ...
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26/03/2009 |
España - Dos neofascistas italianos confiesan haber torturado a etarras en una masía de Barcelona
| La Vanguardia
El juez de la Audiencia Nacional Fernando Andreu les ha interrogado en Roma por la desaparición del ex jefe de ETA Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe, "Pertur". ...
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